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Let's suppose that a visitor or newcomer to your city wanted to take a ride that would give that person a good idea of your city. Let's say that they want to do this by taking one bus or train line. What line would you have them ride, and why?
I'll start. If the question were about Oakland, I'd have them ride line 51A. Line 51A gives a great cross-section of the city, including Fruitvale in East Oakland, Oakland Chinatown, Downtown Oakland, the Uptown entertainment district, the very grand Oakland Tech High School and the more upscale Rockridge commercial district. Line 51 embodies the city so much that someone (not the transit agency!) has started brewing and distributing a beer called Line 51.
The subway (our one line). Incomplete, connects to little, goes nowhere interesting. Excellent allegory for Baltimore's history of planning.
Less sarcastic: No. 3 bus. Gives a real tour of the nicest-looking corridor in the CBD, through pretty tree-lined dense urban areas, and into an equally leafy suburban area.
You get to see both this:
and this
Previously you would see this:
But now you'll have to settle for this interesting structure (it's a high school):
Enjoy the soup, hon. I might also recommend a crab fluff, which is a battered and fried crab cake (so it's basically a crab cake cake).
Get off a few stops from the end and get some crab soup from the Crack Pot, then head back, there's nothing else up that way.
For Manhattan, it's the Lexington Avenue line (4/5/6). Runs constantly, frequently, and is packed like a sardine can between Union Square and 86th Street for most of the day (don't know about the rest of the line, but I doubt it's much less crowded).
For Manhattan, it's the Lexington Avenue line (4/5/6). Runs constantly, frequently, and is packed like a sardine can between Union Square and 86th Street for most of the day (don't know about the rest of the line, but I doubt it's much less crowded).
The Lex line would definitely give you a sense of the massive use of the subway system, but you wouldn't see much of the city since the whole Manhattan portion is underground.
The Lex line would definitely give you a sense of the massive use of the subway system, but you wouldn't see much of the city since the whole Manhattan portion is underground.
Its Brooklyn portion is underground as well.
I'd recommend the 7, which is elevated through most of its route in Queens. Good gritty city views of many working-class immigrant neighborhoods, a warehouse covered with artistic graffiti with great skyline views. Ridership is very diverse, too, a few times I was probably the only native-born american on the car.
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